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Welcome to Earth and Planetary Sciences
Upcoming Events- This week's EPS Colloquium (Wednesday, Feb. 10th, 12:00 noon, Wright Labs Auditorium), is by Dr.Terry Jordan, of Cornell University, who will present "Neogene and Pleistocene Paleoclimate History of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile". Host: Linda Godfrey. All are welcome. EPS Highlights- Congratulations to Esteban Gazel Donde, our recent Ph.D. student, now a post-doc at LDEO, who just was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ciencia "Clodomiro Picado Twight" Award for 2009. The "Clodomiro Picado Twight" award is the National Award of Science in Costa Rica, and was awarded to Esteban for his work on the “The geochemical footprint of the Galapagos hotspot in southern Central America”. The panel decided to grant this distinction to Dr Esteban Gazel Donde for his contributions to the geochemistry and geology of Costa Rica. His investigations have been published in international journals of high prestige, such as Nature, among others. Congrats Esteban ! - check out the new paper by Dennis Kent and colleagues on "Potential on-shore and off-shore reservoirs for CO2 sequestration in Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts" (Goldberg, D.S., Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P.E., 2010,Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913721107). Heres' a link to a short related news article in NGS that's posted via Rutgers Today Giant Carbon "Vault" Proposed Near New York City (National Geographic News, January 4, 2010). Go to NGS... - check out the article in the NY Times today about Craig Feibel's Science article Spatial patterning revealing hominin behavioral modernity at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel ( Science 326: 1677-1680). Excavation Sites Show Distinct Living Areas Early in Stone Age by John Noble Wilford, Dec. 21, 2009 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22archaeo.html?_r=1&ref=science). - Congrats to Dennis Kent, who has been selected recipient of the 2009 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section's William Gilbert Award. The President of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section of AGU writes that this award "... acknowledges your [Dennis Kent's] many contributions to the GP community and to our science. As a section, we owe you a great deal for elevating and promoting our discipline within geosciences, and we are pleased to honor you as a celebrated and active member of the GP community". The award will be presented at the GP reception and business meeting of the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. EPS News & Kudos- The annual Rutgers Geology Museum Open House was held on Saturday, January 30, 2010, 9AM to 4PM, in Scott Hall, Old Queens Campus, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Special presentations were on The Scarlet Knights Trans-Atlantic Challenge by Dr. Josh Kohut (IMCS, Rutgers), Paleoclimatic Framework of Human Evolution by Dr. Gail Ashley (EPS, Rutgers), Madagascar's Buried Treasure: Dinosaur and Other Vertebrate Fossils by Dr. David Krause (Stonybrook), and Earthquake Detection for the Citizen Seismologist by Dr. Ian Saginor (Keystone College). MIneral sales, rock and mineral identification, hands on activities were also on hand. The Open house was a huge success, we estiate over 1500 attended...click for more information. - Congratulations to Catherine Beck, who was just awarded a full-ride scholarship to attend the ICDP Training Course in Windischeschenbach this April, 2010. Cat will be training to participate in the African Drilling Project work in West Turkana in 2011. - Triyani Hidayah presented and successfully defended her Master Thesis Experimental Modeling of Focused Shortening: Understanding the Structural Development of Reverse Fault Zones, Friday, January 29th, 2010. Triyani will be heading to Houston to intern with ExxonMobil for 1 1/2 years before returning to Indonesia to continue her work with ExxonMobil. - Ashley Harris successfully presented and defended his Ph.D. dissertation (January, 7, 2010)"Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy of the Paleocene-Lowermost Eocene, New Jersey Coastal Plain: Implications for Eustatic and Paleoceanographic Change". Ash has accepted a position with Chevron in Houston. Congrats Ash! - Pablo Ruiz presented and successfully defend his Ph.D. dissertation proposal entitled "Reconstruction of the Paleo and Neo stages of Poás volcano, Costa Rica: Competing processes of growth and destruction". My understanding from members of his qualifying committee is that his qualifying exam went well and that we will petition the graduate school for his advancement to candidacy. - Ika Sulistyanigrum presented and successfully defended her MS thesis "Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy during the Cretaceous through the Early Paleogene in the northern Scotian Basin (Laurentian Subbasin), offshore, Nova Scotia" (Monday, October 5th, 10:00 AM). - Richard Fairbanks, Jim Wright and Richard Mortlock were awarded an NSF grant for $497,513 to study the Barbados Sea Level and Radiocarbon Calibration Records. New EPS Publications- all EPS authors are in bold - - Lepre, C.J., and Kent, D.V., 2010. New magnetostratigraphy for the Olduvai Subchron in the Koobi Fora Formation, northwest Kenya, with implications for early Homo. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 290, p. 362-374 - Goldberg, D.S., Kent, D.V.., and Olsen, P.E., 2010. Potential on-shore and off-shore reservoirs for CO2 sequestration in Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913721107. - Muttoni, G., Kent, D.V., Jadoul, F., Olsen, P.E., Rigo, M., Galli, M.T., and Nicora, A., 2010, Rhaetian magnetobiostratigraphy from the Southern Alps (Italy): Constraints on Triassic chronology. Palaegeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 285, p. 1-16. - Barnes, J.D., Sharp, Z.D., Fischer, T.P., Hilton, D.R. and Carr, M.J., 2009. Chlorine isotope variations along the Central American volcanic front and back arc, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q11S17, doi:10.1029/2009GC002587. - Cramer, B.S., Toggweiler, J.R., Wright, J.D., Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., 2009. Ocean overturning since the Late Cretaceous: Inferences from a new benthic foraminiferal isotope compilation. Paleoceanography, vol. 24, no. 4, PA4216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008PA001683 - Bolge, Louise L., Carr, M. J., Milidakis, Katherine I., Lindsay, F. N., Feigenson, M.D., 2009. Correlating geochemistry, tectonics, and volcanic volume along the Central American volcanic front. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., vol. 10, Q12S18 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GC002704 - Alperson-Afil, N., Sharon, G., Kislev, M., Melamed, Y., Zohar, I., Ashkenazi, S., Rabinovich, R., Biton, R., Werker, E., Hartman, G., Feibel, C. and Goren-Inbar, N., 2009. Spatial patterning revealing hominin behavioral modernity at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel. Science 326: 1677-1680. - McGowran, B., Berggren, W.A., Hilgen, F., Steininger, F., Aubry, M.-P., Lourens, L., Van Couvering, J.A., 2009. Neogene and Quaternary coexisting in the geological time scale: The inclusive compromise. Earth-Science Reviews, 96: 249-262. - Schlische, R.W. and Withjack, M.O., 2009. Origin of fault domains and fault-domain boundaries (transfer and accommodation zones) in extensional provinces: Result of random nucleation and self-organized fault growth. Journal of Structural Geology, v. 31, p. 910-925. - Whattam, S.A., and Hewins, R.H., 2009. An origin for PO chondrules from thermally annealed granoblastic olivine aggregates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, p. 5460–5482. - Henza, A. A., Withjack, M.O., and Schlische, R.W., 2009. Normal-fault development during two phases of extension: An experimental study: Journal of Structural Geology, doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2009.07.007. - Withjack, M.O., Schlische, R.W., and Baum, M.S., 2009. The extensional development of the Fundy rift basin, southeastern Canada: Geological Journal, v. 44, p. 631-651. doi: 10.1002/gj.1186. - Browning, J.V., Miller, K.G., McLaughlin, P.P., Jr., Edwards, L.E., Kulpecz, A.A., Powars, D.S., Wade, B.S., Feigenson, M.D., and Wright, J.D., 2009, Integrated sequence stratigraphy of the post-impact sediments from the Eyreville core holes, Chesapeake Bay impact structure inner basin, in Gohn, G.S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K.G., and Reimold, W.U., eds., The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 458, p. 775-810, doi: 10.1130/2009.2458(04). - Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., Browning, J.V., McLaughlin, P.P., Jr., Miller, K.G., Self-Trail, J.M., Kulpecz, A.A., and Elbra, T., 2009, Geologic columns for the ICDP-USGS Eyreville A and C cores, Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Post-impact sediments, 444 to 0 m depth, in Gohn, G.S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K.G., and Reimold, W.U., eds., The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 458, p. 91-114, doi: 10.1130/2009.2458(04). - Gohn, G.S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K.G., and Reimold, W.U., 2009, Deep drilling in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure—An overview, in Gohn, G.S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K.G., and Reimold, W.U., eds., The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 458, p. 1-20, doi: 10.1130/2009.2458(33). - Kulpecz, A.A., Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., McLaughlin, P.P., Jr., Harris, A.D., and Feigenson, M.D., 2009, Post-impact deposition in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure: Variations in eustasy, compaction, sediment supply, and passive-aggressive tectonism, in Gohn, G.S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K.G., and Reimold, W.U., eds., The ICDP-USGS Deep Drilling Project in the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: Results from the Eyreville Core Holes: Geological Society of America Special Paper 458, p. 811-837, doi: 10.1130/2009.2458(34). - Aubry, M.-P., 2009. A Sea of Lilliputians. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 284, p. 88-113.
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